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Creating Photoshop foliage

Creating Photoshop foliage - Illustrator Tutorial

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Creating Photoshop foliage

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- [Instructor] Welcome to Drawing Vector Graphics Laboratory. Even though the name of this series is Drawing Vector Graphics, we're going to create our art assets today within Photoshop. Truth be told, I use both apps every day in my own creative process, so in this movie, I want to show you how to create an organic Photoshop brush. This is going to be a whole lot of fun, so let's dive into it. Now, this is where it's like going back to art school days. This is where it starts. It starts with analog tools, just a simple disposable bowl here. I put some black acrylic paint in it, and then I water it down, almost to a watercolor consistency, but I'm using acrylic because it's readily available. You could use any black ink, for that matter, would do this, but I just happen to use acrylic paint. I'm also going to use an old toothbrush. Now, you've already seen this toothbrush in the previous DVG Lab, where I used it to make a speckled texture, so I always go back to it and use it on…

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